 | Alexander Porteous - 2005 - 325 pages
...accursed tree which trembles without even a breath of wind." Sir Walter Scott wrote : " O ^woman I in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,...variable as the shade By the light quivering Aspen made." Gerarde, however, ungallantly compares the leaves of the Aspen to women's tongues, as they " seldome... | |
 | Gordon Stables - 2006 - 264 pages
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 | Fred R. Shapiro - 2006 - 1092 pages
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 | Kimberly Harrison - 2006 - 406 pages
...days be her best. Am reading now "Marmion," a Tale by Sir Walter Scott. These lines are very beautiful O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!" We went up to "Woodside," spent the evening with cousin Juliet. I received a letter from Howard in... | |
 | Daniel Woodard - 2006 - 160 pages
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 | Various - 2007 - 320 pages
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 | William Henry Thorne - 1902
...women. Walter Scott had a better ideal of the fair sex, at times coquettish, yet not above serving: "O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! This, too, is an inadequate conception of the part that woman plays in the world as the mistress of... | |
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O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou... 
